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Eli Perencevich

@eliowa.bsky.social

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doc+epidemiologist in Iowa studying antimicrobial resistance. Columbus Crew ignore the noise, always forward opinions are mine aren’t medical advice

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · Feb 13

Do Americans want safe food?

Which Departments are responsible for food safety?

USDA
HHS -> FDA and CDC
Commerce -> NOAA (fisheries)

If one Department is disabled, we don’t have safe food

Enjoy your dinner 🍲

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 52m

I’ve shifted to paying for America’s Test Kitchen and their app, which I like. They do offer 2 weeks free, so free lunch for a couple weeks anyway

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Clinpathman @clinpathman.bsky.social · 1h

Why I never joined AARP.

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/u...

UnitedHealth paid AARP $9 billion to sell branded health coverage

The disclosure sheds more light on a partnership dating to the 1990s.

www.axios.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 3h

Awesome public health news:
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of
1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
2. Syphilis and
3. Hepatitis B
www.who.int/news/item/13...

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTCT of HIV and syphilis. This makes the Maldives the first country in the world to achieve ‘triple elimination’.

www.who.int

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 11h

One of the ways we know the perinatal dose of Hepatitis B vaccine makes a difference? NHANES & the people who powered it

ACIP recommended the birth dose in 1991. The prevalence of Hepatitis B among children 6–19 years old declined 68% from 1988–1994 to 1999-2006.

academic.oup.com/jid/article-...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 11h

Polls must look terrible. Guessing tariffs and ending wind energy credits aren’t sitting well in the 2nd

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 15h

Rod Blum ends comeback bid for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District seat

Rod Blum ends comeback bid for Iowa's 2nd Congressional District seat

Former Congressman Rod Blum suspends his campaign for Iowa's open 2nd District U.S. House seat, while new attack ads target Iowa Republicans over wind energy tax credits, health care costs and the federal shutdown.

www.thegazette.com

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 16h

Almost everyone I know at CDC retired early or took jobs outside of government. Devastating losses even before this latest RIF

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 17h

@bradytwest.bsky.social @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @aapor.bsky.social @clairemkbowen.bsky.social
@csmarcum.bsky.social @nickhartphd.bsky.social

Lots of our #srms colleagues got RIFd last week. I wrote to get them reinstated.
#statssky #CDC #defenddata

Write to Congress: CDC Employees must be Reinstated

**Please write now to your Senators and Representative demanding that ALL CDC employees be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government.** Late on Friday, October 10, the Trump Admin...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

columbia missouri musicians rally at city hall against ICE arrest of friend and colleague from local music scene

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuoO...

Musical rally held at city hall for Columbia man detained by ICE

YouTube video by KMIZ ABC 17 News

www.youtube.com

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 17h

Good thing we’ve defunded the CDC and the NIH, so we can’t do anything about this.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 17h

W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections.
Gift link: nyti.ms/4mZ2c8B

W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections

The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics.

nyti.ms

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 19h

Step 1: prove that people eat a little bit more food when it tastes better.

Step 2: reword "tastes better" to "Ultra-processed".

Step 3: published in Cell Metabolism.

Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 1d

This may be the worst nutrition trial I've ever seen.

Subjects got a minimally processed diet or an ultra-processed diet, ostensibly to test the effect of processing.

But the UPF diet was higher in sat fat, sugar, refined grains, & lower in fiber.

What happened?
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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JAMA @jama.com · 5d

Emergency Medicaid accounts for less than 1% of total #Medicaid spending, even in states with large undocumented populations.

ja.ma/4mZsZSf

A JAMA "Research Letter" published online October 9, 2025, shows a US map depicting 'Emergency Medicaid Spending for Undocumented Immigrants.' States are color-coded to show the percentage of spending, ranging from 1 to 2%.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

20th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2105.

I’m supposed to get a free set of (Trump) steak knives now.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 2d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 2d

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 2d

No way to run a government. Fired. Not fired. Fired again. Not fired. Pants on fire.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 2d

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Just got back from Normal, IL for a lecture at Illinois State University. Established in 1857 after this small town lawyer named Abe secured the funding. Was reminded once again that US public universities are the triumph of civilization

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 2d

Baseball: it's seismic!
Also the Polanco P-Wave is a brilliant name for this. Nice work, scientists.

Infield Fly Girl @infieldflygrl.online · 2d

Confirmed! We shook the earth last night!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

No shit…

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 2d

1. My father's funeral was this week. This morning, I attended my first @nihvigils.bsky.social with my family. I shared my father's story. My father immigrated from South Korea. This was possible with #NSF funding. I know we are sister agencies, but science is under attack in multiple departments.

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social has the must-read of the week, but you're not going to like it: The Death of Public Health open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

open.substack.com

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 3d

What should be done with the land now that there’s no more market for soybeans? Maybe a combination of wind and solar could turn some land into energy farms to prevent bankruptcy

Elinor A. Levin @levinforiowa.bsky.social · 3d

Iowa farmland deserves to be treated as the finite natural resource that it is.
Iowa farmers and farm families deserve to have a predictable market for the work they do.

Stewardship, not extraction. Markets, not bailouts.

It's that simple.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Trump considers $10 billion bailout for farmers as tariffs disrupt the market

President Trump is said to be preparing a bailout package of at least $10 billion that could provide relief to farmers facing the financial pain of tariffs on China. To discuss what this means for far...

www.pbs.org

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